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THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH.
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2009 Global Health Mini-University
Friday, October 09, 2009
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- What is the Mini-University?
- Details of the Event
- Sessions and Facilitators
- Directions to the Mini-University
- Highlights from the 2008 MAQ Mini-University
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- Schedule at a Glance - MS Excel file
Name Badge and Certificate: If you would like to have a pre-printed name badge with your course schedule printed on the back and/or a Global Health Mini-University graduation certificate with your name printed on it, you must register online by Monday, October 05, 2009.
Details of the Event
Date: Friday, October 09, 2009 Place: The George Washington University
Cloyd Heck Marvin Center
800 21st Street
Washington, DC 20052Time: 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM : Check-In
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM : Session I
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM : Session II
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM : Session III
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM : Brown Bag Session
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM : Session IV
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM : Knowledge Extravaganza
Sessions and Facilitators
Below is the list of the state-of-the-art technical sessions and facilitators that will be featured in the upcoming Mini-University. For a more detailed list, click on sessions or one of the links below.
To view the Schedule at a Glance, click here.
Continuing Education Units are indicated in parentheses following the course title (e.g., Postabortion Care 101 (0.1 CEU))
Cross-Cutting
Beyond lip service: Tools for challenging gender norms and understanding sexuality in health programs
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Doris Bartel
Big footprints:Disaster or Development in Rebuilding Afghanistan
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Anne Peterson
Bigger, Better, Faster, Cheaper: How Mobile Technology is Transforming Health Programs
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Adam Slote, Peggy D'Adamo
Boots and Birkenstocks: Can civil-military cooperation improve global health?
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Gene Bonventre
Everything you want to know and more about the USAID Budget Process
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Robin Boyer
Finding Your Way: USAID Career Development Panel
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Jeff Spieler, Ben Gustafson, Marie Ahmed
Gender: From a term to an integrated approach- Lessons learned from current USAID health projects
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Mary Kincaid, Constance Newman
Going the last mile: How can we achieve “healthcare information for all”? Knowledge for Health (K4Health)
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Tara Sullivan
Integration through Segmentation: Customizing Suppy Chain for Improved Public Health outcomes
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Linda Allain, John Durgavich, Jennifer Antilla
Making the Grade: Using the Evidence to Support School-Based Sex Education
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Karah Fazekas, Dhianaraj Chetty
Mission Impossible? A mental health impact assessment in Rwanda’s newly liberalized coffee industry
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Jutta Tobias
Rites and Rights—Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs, Kakenya Ntaiya
The Promise of the President’s Global Health Initiative
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Gloria Steele
The road from where to why: better data and better decision support tools using GIS and geographic data
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): John Spencer, Andrew Inglis
What Congress Wants from You: Think Strategically, Spend Wisely, Achieve Sustainable Results
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): Michelle Sumilas
Whose life is it anyway?--Social/Behavior Change Communication
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Antje Becker-Benton
Family Planning and Maternal Health Integration
Something for Everyone! FP and MNCH Integration
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Catharine McKaig, Elaine Charurat
Family Planning and Reproductive Health
A is for 'Access' - increasing the use of long-acting methods
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Brad Lucas
Addressing poverty-equity in health program design, implementation and evaluation
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Karen Foreit
Contraceptive R&D – What’s New, What’s Around the Corner and What Still Remains to be Developed?
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Jeff Spieler
Credit is an Engine of Growth: Expanding Quality Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services in the Private Sector
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Meaghan Smith
CSR and NGO-Corporate Partnerships: Building the Business Case and Leveraging Corporate Networks for RH/FP and Women’s Health
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Brown Bag Session
Instructor(s): David Wofford, Shawn MacDonald
Expanding Access to Injectable Contraceptives - the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs)
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): John Stanback, Victoria Graham
Family Planning: The Elevator Speech
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Scott Radloff
GET FOCUSED on FP/HIV Integration: 10 Steps to Improve Services
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Susan Adamchak
Universal access for postabortion family planning--Failing women no longer!
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Douglas Huber , Erin Mielke
Voices From the Field: Muslim Religious Leaders Promoting Benefits of Family Planning
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Maureen Norton, Leah Freji, Milka Dinev
Whose Choice is it Anyway? Informed Choice Re-Examined
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Rebecka Lundgren, Jewel Gausman
Health Systems
Counterfeit and Substandard Medicines- A Clear and Present Danger
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Veerle Coignez
Global leadership and development—To liberate Sisyphus: myth or potential
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Tim Allen, Joan Mansour
Improving Care for Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) – The ART Framework hypothesis testing in Nicaragua, Tanzania, and Uganda
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Larissa Jennings
Managing for a Motivated and Productive Health Workforce - What Does it Take?
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Lois Schaefer, Jim McCaffery
Only for the Wealthy? Reaching the Poor with Quality Private Health Sector Services through Social Franchising and Output-Based Aid
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Ruth Berg, Cynthia Eldridge, Gael O'Sullivan
Resource Tracking for Financial Accountability and Overall Aid Efficiency – The Future of NHA
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Steve Musau
Strengthening information systems for community based HIV programs
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Heidi Reynolds
Taking the pulse of policy – a participatory approach to assessing policy implementation
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Suneeta Sharma, Anita Bhuyan
Uganda's User Fee Policy: To Have or Have Not
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): John Osika, Ellie Brown
HIV/AIDS
Add an ounce of prevention to that pound of cure: Integrating HIV Prevention into care and treatment settings
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Pam Bachanas
HIV and Nutrition: Evidence, Emerging Issues, and Promising Practices
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Tim Quick, Amie Heaps
Integrating Mental Health Services in HIV care programs: the time has come for a more holistic healing approach of HIV infected persons
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Jude Awuba
Join the Moment: PMTCT as a Means to Create a Generation Free of HIV
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Allison Spensley
Junkies, Hookers, and Queers – Oh My! Most at Risk Populations for HIV programming
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Clancy Broxton
Know Your Epidemic, Know Your Status: Planning HIV Testing and Counseling Programs to Reach Prevention, Care and Treatment Goals
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Alison Surdo
More than a Snip: Challenges and Progress in Integrating Male Circumcision into HIV Prevention Programs
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Kelly Curran, Emmanuel Njeuhmeli
OK, Culture Matters, So Now What? Culture and HIV/AIDS Revisited
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Suzanne Leclerc- Madlala
Prevention first! The Challenge of Effective Combination HIV Prevention
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Jim Shelton, Shanti Conly
Rah! Rah! Rah! Cheering for Children: Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children and what it means in developing countries
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Gretchen Bachman, Colette Bottini
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Advances and Updates in HIV Treatment
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Robert Ferris, Tom Minior
Infectious Diseases
INFLUENZA – It was not if but when, and the when is NOW!
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Murray Trostle
Malaria: Something old, something new, something borrowed…
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Eric Tongren
Malaria: Scaling up Home-based Management for Children
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Ciro Franco
Seven Nasty Little Buggers We Can Prevent – Integrated Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Angela Weaver, Eric Ottesen
TB 101: A breath of fresh air on an old topic
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Sangeeta Mookherji
Zzz, zzz, zzz ...splat: Effective BCC for Malaria Prevention
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Marc Boulay
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
From PPH to PE/E: Targeting another major killer of mothers and newborns
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Linda Bartlett, Barbara Rawlins
Immunization: a
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Robert Steinglass
It's not just about children anymore: innovations in maternal and child health (MCH) programming
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session IV
Instructor(s): Lily Kak
Lipid-based nutrient supplements and prevention of malnutrition
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Camila Chaparro
Networking to Improve Fistula Treatment in Nigeria
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Erin Mielke, Evelyn Landry
Nutrition and Food Security
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Laura Birx
Postnatal/partum care: It is all about timing and contents for the mother and the baby
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session II
Instructor(s): Joseph Johnson
Sustainable, successful community health worker programs
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session III
Instructor(s): Lauren Crigler, Troy Jacobs, Allison Wittcoff
Why dealing with #2 is #1 for Maternal and Child health: Innovative Approaches to Hygiene and Sanitation Improvement
Location: To Be Determined
Time period: Session I
Instructor(s): Julia Rosenbaum, Merri Weinger
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